Arrived last summer to succeed Jean-Louis Gasset on the bench of Olympique de Marseille, Roberto de Zerbi wore great hopes with him. During the enthronement of the Italian coach, President Pablo Longoria then mentioned a medium -term project spanning three years. Less than a year later, the qualification objective for the Champions League has reached for next season. Sufficient for the idyll between de Zerbi and the OM to continue? Not so sure.
It is at least the sound of bell that evokes The team This Monday in its columns. The sports daily has evoked the evolution of a relationship to the beautiful fixed last summer to a climate more
” rigid “ Between the coach and his management. In question, an accumulation of small varied upsets between the two parts. For example are mentioned “Spinning criticism” of a Roberto de Zerbi about the Recruitment Policy of the Longoria-Benatia duo. The Italian who judged during the season that there was a certain imbalance in his group.
De Zerbi would also have deplored the fact that his management did not defend him sufficiently when criticisms targeted him at different times of the season. On the other side, his superiors have not always understood his decisions. The way in which Roberto de Zerbi uses tension, his choice to give a few days of rest to his flock. The episode where rumors of a possible interest in AC Milan for Italian also annoyed internally, or at least surprised.
Relief for the C1, but what about the future?
The season is now practically finished for Olympique de Marseille which has only one match to play before going on vacation. The reception of Stade Rennais at the Vélodrome on May 17 (9 p.m.) will be the last release of Roberto de Zerbi and his men. It will then be time for the latter to take stock.
Saturday evening, Pablo Longoria and Medhi Benatia welcomed the group and mentioned relief to meet in C1 next season. The duo's objective being to chain three seasons in a row in the competition to bring enough money and structure the club. It remains to be seen whether Roberto de Zerbi will want to continue the adventure where he will decide, like others before him in the recent OM past, to go along the way.
